Marie McDonnell Roberts

'Grove of Trees in a Misty Landscape', Woman Artist, American Watercolor Society

Circa 1960

A substantial watercolor on Arches paper showing a house nestled on a bluff overlooking the variegated blue-grey waters of the Atlantic Ocean. Signed lower right, "L. Sisson" for Laurence Sisson (American, 1928-2015) and dated 2002. Inscribed lower left with dedication to the artist's son, David Sisson. The youngest artist ever to be elected to membership of the American Watercolor...

Signed, lower left, with monogram, 'E. A.', for Edna Wright Andrade (American, 1917-2008) and dated 1954. Additionally signed, verso. A luminous, mid-ce...

Signed lower left, "E Hansen" for Ejnar Hansen (American, 1884-1965) and dated 1936. Ejnar Hansen studied at Copenhagen's Royal Academy of Art before moving to the United States in 1914 and settling in Pasadena in 1924. An ardent proponent of modernist color theory, Hansen became an influential teacher at the Chouinard School, the Otis Art Institute, the John Muir College, and the Pasadena School of Fine Arts. He exhibited widely and with success, including in Denmark and at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the 1939 World's Fair and at the Cincinnati Museum. Ejnar was a member of the Academy of Western Painters, the Los Angeles Art Association, the California Art Club, the California Watercolor Society, Pasadena Society of Artists and the Foundation for Western Art. Ejnar Hansen's works may be found in numerous public and private collections including LACMA, the Pasadena Art Institute and the San Diego Fine Art Society. Reference: Artists in California 1786-1940, Third Edition, Edan Milton Hughes: Crocker Art Museum, Sheridan Books 2002, Vol. 1, p. 484; Who Was Who in American Art 1564-1975: 400 Years of Artists in America, Peter Hastings Falk, Sound View Press 1999, Vol. 2, p. 1449; Weilbach, Dansk Kunstnerleksikon, the Castle and Cultural Agency, Copenhagen; Vollmer Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler des 20. Jarhhunderts, Hans Vollmer, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag 1992, Vol. 2, p. 371; Revyen, Chicago 23.12.1916; 17.2.1917; 8.12.1917; 2.2.1918; 16.3.1918; Vore Herrer, okt. 1918; Internat. Studio, juli 1920; Ekstrabl. 14.2.1921 (G. Nygaard); Tidens Kvinder, maj 1934; Fr. Graae: Fra Sydhavsøerne, 1934, 133-45; Art Digest, aug. 1937, dec. 1944, maj 1945; Da. Tid., Chicago 3.9.1937; Arts and Arch., apr. 1938; P. Uttenreitter: Olaf Rude...

Signed lower right, in gouache, 'Herb Saylor' for Herbert Saylor (American, 1916-1991) and painted circa 1945. Art educator Herbert Saylor first studied a...

Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Wooded Landscape (P3.1), Year: 1958, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 18 x 23.5 in. (45.72 x 59.69 cm), Description: Peering out in...

Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Two Trees (P2.38), Year: 1958, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Image Size: 14 x 21 inches, Size: 15 x 22 in. (38.1 x 55.88 cm), Descript...

Landscape 1967, paper/watercolor, 29.5x35.5 cm Herberts Mangolds (1901-1978) Graphic, army officer. In 1920 he graduated from the Artillery Cadet School of Latvian and many militar...

Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Forest (P2.59), Year: 1959, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 15 x 11 in. (38.1 x 27.94 cm), Description: Leaning to the left, the a...